Daniel Defoe Quotes

I hate to change leaders in battle, but the new leader is better than a timid one.

People don't follow titles, they follow courage.

In politics, guts is all.

Caution and cynicism are safe, but soldiers don't want to follow cautious cynics.

When you make a courageous statement, people start to follow you, and that's nice.

I am a tough minister.

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

Courage breeds leadership.

You've got to lead from a position of strength.

We have got to be brave and bold and bring people with us, not try and look all ways. Trying to please everyone usually means we have pleased no one.

COURAGE isn't an absence of fear. It is doing what you are afraid to do, letting go of the familiar and forging ahead into new territory. What I have discovered is that the best leaders have the courage to act - are willing to take the risk, make the statement, point the way, lead the way - when others hesitate out of fear. Effective leadership requires the ability to stand up, stand out, and the conviction to do it. I have never known a successful leader that was not courageous.

Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.

Courage and confidence are what decision making is all about.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Boldness be my friend.